To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When I was 11 years old, I had the good fortune of spending a number of Friday nights at the home of my best friend, Larry. Larry and his family had the good fortune of living right beside an active railroad line on the north side of Indianapolis. We both loved hunting… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In Vienna, Austria, in the middle of the 19th century, going to a hospital to have a baby could be likened to a roll of the dice. Sometimes, new mothers did not return home. The mortality figures were staggering. Almost 20% of the expectant moms in Vienna General Hospital’s First Obstetrical Clinic succumbed to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, two first class passengers on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle made arrangements to travel with a pet. Their “therapeutic companion animal” turned out to be a full-grown pig. Others passengers described the 300-pound hog as “enormous, brown, angry, and honking.” At first he was… Read more »
